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Damn, hell and x#* the Dominion scoreboard!
Comes down to two coaching decisions: the Bucs coach electing to go for it leading 14-10 just before halftime, resulting in a 7-pt TD. Packers coach going for field goal at 8-yard line but needing 8 points to tie with 2:05 remaining in game. Gone by next training camp: Equanimious St. Brown (Rodgers hit him in a bad place — the hands — on that 2-point conversion!), Kevin King, and defense coach Mike Pettine.
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Insurrectionists will blame Trump
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Prosecutors already have charged more than 150 people with federal crimes related to participating in the riot …
Defense lawyers involved in these cases said they expected many of their clients to argue they were taking their cues not from a militia, or from QAnon, or from a white nationalist group, but from one person: former President Donald Trump, whom Congress impeached on a charge of inciting an insurrection.
“These are like those high-school football players,” whose coach gets them “jumping up and down to get out and play football,” said Albert Watkins, a lawyer representing Jacob Chansley, the self-described QAnon Shaman who faces six counts, including felony charges.
Tag Archives: Civil War
Union dead honored at Forest Hill Cemetery, then Confederate
Gadzooks! What would Ald. Matt Phair and the Madison Common Council say! It was a beautiful Monday morning at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison where history was remembered, and honored, on Memorial Day. The most touching moment was when a … Continue reading
Confederate Rest memorial stone meant to heal wounds of Civil War
The band played ‘Dixie’ as Confederate POWs were marched to Camp Randall What a spectacle it must have been that Sunday, April 20, 1862! The Civil War had been raging for a full year, Wisconsin boys had mustered out of Camp Randall … Continue reading
Veteran of Wisconsin’s Iron Brigade asked former Confederates to fund monument at Forest Hills
After the death of Alice Whiting Waterman in 1897, Madison resident Hugh M. Lewis, who had been a captain in Company A of Wisconsin’s famed Iron Brigade, appealed to his Southern counterparts in Washington D.C., to raise money for a … Continue reading
Reliving the past in Charleston, S.C.
[UPDATED with new photos] Researchers from the Blaska Policy Werkes are on the ground here in Charleston, South Carolina, birthplace of the Confederacy (1860-1865). This is an old city — ancient by American standards — founded at the behest of the … Continue reading